- Date
- April 27, 1990, 12:00 local (18:00 UTC)
- Place
- Englewood, CO
- Injuries
- 1 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N6356DCessna 172
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report November 9, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900427013029A
- Case key
- 17924
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Probable cause
The pilot landed with a tailwind, and cost control of the airplane during rollout.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The private pilot was completing a cross country solo flight. She said she had weather information that a front was due at the same time she estimated her arrival. She said that on short final, she encountered windshear. During landing roll, she said the tail lifted and the plane nosed over. The plane came to rest inverted on the runway, with damaged vertical stabilizer and damage to the tops of the wings.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N6356D
- Reported as
- Cessna 172
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 17272742
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-H2AD, 160 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Pc Flyers
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Departed
- FTG · Byers, CO
- Destination
- APA
- Airport
- APA · Centennial, runway 35L, 7,000 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 37
- Certificate
- Private
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 180 total · 140 in this make and model · 117 as pilot in command · 85 in the last 90 days · 40 in the last 30 days · 4 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 20 knots
- Visibility
- 20 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N6356D · 2
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.